what serhii zhadan says, for example, it will become part of the global art world, because there is always a shortage of voices that can be trusted, and these voices are based on experience, and ukrainian voices definitely sound from experience, and especially a big difference. when you have this voice in the pop, then respect and influence are much greater more spectrum thank you and that's it we will finish our issue also join our daily briefings at 18:00 and 23:35 on youtube and facebook thank you for being with us have a peaceful night and a restful weekend see you good evening my name is andriy saichuk this is direct er direct direct direct espresso and they were very interesting actually the interview with the soloist gogol bordello i enjoyed

listening to the great work of iryna solomko and well, dear friends viewers er now let's see what we have how we are doing well. about 9,000 people are watching us today on youtube. also, i understand that even more people are watching us on satellite and, of course, cable networks. i am very glad to see you have a good evening today. well, let's definitely move right away. to move to the conversations in fact and to the discussion of everything that happened today as usual with a lot of a lot of news from so far unverified to the end information but very interesting about what is possible even good quietly quietly quietly to me this is about the ship this is about one more russian ship you already in the know, but we will be careful while we do not have a very serious confirmation. and well, right now, just now, we are in touch with ms. iryna fries, a people's deputy of the

european solidarity, then good, good evening good evening actually let's start with this information first of all. this week we had a meeting of the verkhovna rada of the parliament. i understand that now a lot of work is going on in the committees in the committees more than in peacetime, but nevertheless from time to time the deputies go to some effective voting, how would you rate this parliamentary week, after all, to you as a deputy, first of all, i will ask such a question to mr. andriy, you know. since the beginning of the war in we have sessions that take place once a week, sometimes once every two weeks, but they all take place in the hall of the verkhovna

rada, that is, natural deputies work in kyiv as required by the staff and as our state currently needs that is, all the changes that need to be accepted and approved, asked to be accepted, the last e -section day was important for me personally, our vote, an appeal to the united states of america regarding the recognition of the russian federation as a state sponsor of terrorism, why is it important, why that at the moment it is not just recognition of this country as a sponsor of terrorism - it is also a large wholesale tax sanction on which it is built, this recognition of so -called - so-called knowledge, because after the united states of america recognizes the russian federation as a state that manages terrorism, it will be

included the additional sanctions mechanism is tough enough, i want to remind our lives that at the moment , only four countries are recognized as states that sponsor terrorism, and i really hope that russia will be added to the black list because what it is doing the russian federation is on the territory of our country, where the nazis of the ukrainian people are full of war , this is all a sign that this country deserves its place on the damn list of the usa. - forest and actually this will be a gift, conditionally speaking, to putin, and on the other hand, to us ukrainians, to us ukrainians, but we don't know what kind of gift to ourselves and to the russians, and a gift to the world, putin is preparing

, and actually there are different forecasts that is, one of the predictions are that there are quite a lot of people now saying that he may even declare an official war in order to start a general mobilization on the other side. well, michael mcfaul, for example, the former ambassador wrote today that, in fact, there are chances that this war will drag on for weeks in such a positional exhausting exhausting status quo and he and he says wouldn't it be much smarter for putin to simply declare now that they have already won, everything worked out and will simply grow back home as far as this is an option optimistic do you believe in him later, but we

must remain realistic and our realism must be purely pragmatic, which consists of one thing: we must protect our state and nothing is more important for us, so there are no scenarios that can develop, whether it is on the ninth of may or maybe immediately after the ninth of may, they consist of one thing: we have to defeat this damned aggressor, what uh, we have to defeat him, and that's it.

the pact, conditionally speaking, of party division and mutual fear was to be rejected immediately on february 24, after the beginning, not a single party and not a single faction allowed themselves any attacks or criticism of the actions of the current government, we said that unity today is a guarantee of our stability and a guarantee of our future victory, therefore we will consider all political disputes after of our victory, that is why i share the opinion of mr. serhiy romanin that this message was unnecessary, because today the parliament is truly more united than ever and works to ensure that the state receives everything it needs in the legislative field. depends on the parliament well, still, i can't help but ask your position on may 9,

since the parliament is also preparing to adopt as far as i understand the statement about the inadmissibility of appropriating the victory over nazism by the russian federation, but i know that a bill was also registered to officially stop celebrating may 9 and from. the polls in the capital show that the majority of ukrainians support this, on the other hand, a certain number of people, 15-20%, for them this holiday remains important. we also know the position of the fact that this office of the president says that it is better not to take steps that could push someone away. and what do you think you can really not the most frequent right now , or is it still a good idea, absolutely timely, moreover, he thinks that this is a mistake of the parliament, as something that did not manage in fact, to show courage and to taste this bessia, which is celebrated

by russia on may 9, we who declare that we are a european state and we should unite with the family of european states should celebrate, or rather , sorry, not celebrate, celebrate may 8 day memory and victory over fascism. we should not join such false facades that were imprinted and overgrown with myths during the times of the soviet union, which today the russian federation raises its dirty flag. we should demonstrate maximum detachment from everything that in one way or another the russian federation is trying to impose on us, as you know, such brotherly ties, how they try to promote it, we

have nothing to do with him, as in that song and in that poem it seemed that we will never become brothers yes, not related, absolutely also a question that remains very uh, i don’t know, sensitive for many ukrainians, this is the issue of fuel shortages at gas stations, uh , for how much. well, because we don’t have very much now, there is also little and and and and and on the airs that are available they discuss how effective the policy of containment is now, or actually these prices, would it not be expedient, on the contrary, to open more market opportunities here in order to saturate in particular, well increases the price, however, because it is not just a matter of people not being able to go

to the store there, relatively speaking, it is a question of what, well , here with such a situation, in a few days we will be able to find ourselves, well, in reality, when people won't be able to get to work, you know, i leave the critic that the state is a bad regulator, has points of view and any way, when the state tries to shove its architectural activities into the market, they end up with deficits or collapses or something else i am sure that the state should not have discussed fuel prices, even though we have risks , even though we have a war and even though we may find ourselves in the conditions of uh, rising fuel prices, uh, we have to communicate with market mechanisms and as soon as the state stops its

intervention, i hope that fuel will appear again at our gas stations and everyone who can afford it will afford to use fuel at the price that will be set by the market and not by the state regulatory mechanism. he is always there leads to such er-er blunders, that is, all this at the same time, the price may increase, but this is normal , the payment for this situation is "

talkers and marauders" and does it not seem to you that everyone should also somehow stimulate the ministry of education, in particular, so that already now some directives, well some changes in the school curriculum, which i will remind you is incredibly oversaturated, absolutely russian poets and writers are dominant there, and so on and so on, that is, the impression is that the

decolonization of ukraine, relatively speaking, did not take place here and well, i just know that the same children and teenagers say that well, today i literally had a conversation with the fifteen-year-old daughter of my friends who said that she literally refuses to listen to lessons about bulgakov because she can't bear it and does the ministry understand this and big cities and small chinese women, etc., including a very good initiative on the decommunization of civil society, which carefully records where in which city, town, village, street, street that bears

soviet or soviet-related names union that are worth renaming. i think that it would be worthwhile to simply take the list, which is already a conditional register of what public organizations have done on their own initiative, and present it to the communities or citizens of one or another city, as an opportunity to decide on the options for how the avenue and street will now develop. maidan, etc., and this initiative will stand firmly on the wishes of people who live in one or another city and town. i know that even a session of the kharkiv city council is currently being prepared. where it will also be proposed to rename a few streets, but a few - this does not mean something

significant, it must be done comprehensively, that is, there is no need to convene a session and council to rename two or three streets, it is necessary to offer the community a list of existing streets and try to do suggestions, leaving their own option so that people can decide what they want to call this or that street, and then it will be more harmonious and organic, has a point of view regarding the ministry of education and the school program, you know, you need it to change definitely unfortunately, after the situation with covids and online education, our children faced the situation with online education during the war, in general, it seems to me that the learning process is quite difficult for our uh, five boys, but at

the same time, i think that there is a need approach carefully because you can cut down everything en masse, but there are things that need to be studied. i very delicately want to say that there are things that need to be studied, because by studying uh, you understand how at least well, not psychology, but at least uh, the feeling of the time when it was asked because this or that poet or writer did not always work exclusively as a propagandist, and there are things that require us to know them and choose them as well. it does not deny that our program should be much broader, the study of western literature, which was sufficient for a long time and very limited in nature. that is, it is necessary to take a comprehensive

approach to really changing the education program of our children. people who should have been very good specialists on the one hand, but on the other hand it should have been indisputable to you - we will call it simply patriots of ukraine because uh, we know, we just remember how during the simple reduction of russian literature, there are a lot of russian teachers literature students automatically became teachers of ukrainian literature without having any desire for this literature and having not ukrainian culture, but often foreign literature, and it was organic for them to then teach 100 pages of pushkin, for example and do not introduce other authors at all. i absolutely agree with this, by the way. well, in continuation of this conversation, since last week, i have been constantly asking this question. olena shuliak, the head of the party, the leader

of the party, the servant of the people, said in an interesting interview about the fact that inefficient officials remain a very big problem, the inefficiency of even entire ministries, and that this is the problem that the war exposed very strongly, i.e., inefficiency and not always sufficiently qualified personnel, in your opinion, how can this issue be solved does it require just some correct new approaches, well actually we don't want to criticize anyone, but the personnel policy for two years, in fact, when mr. shulyak's party was in power, it was far from what is called public, transparent competitions -what kind of criticism, in fact, public service contests were in general, and

they were slowed down deliberately in order to appoint their so-called people to these or other positions, starting from the 19th year, the public service then the process of emasculating the official apparatus has begun by replacing it again with its own people. this has been happening for the past two years, and any civil servant , in fact, of any ministry, who have tried to reformat, then unite, then separate, will tell you this fact. to create again, that is, all this actually affects the motivation of the official who takes the oath of a civil servant, signs and works for the state, all this motivation kills further now, in fact, this process continues the latest decisions from the cabinet of ministers, in particular, about the fact that there are civil servants who do not return, although they can be sufficiently professionally

trained remotely. what was formed? i can't say and i won't even try to defend officials who, you know, are closely related to bureaucracy in our country, but i want to say that the bureaucratic apparatus needs it. you know how, that is, a person goes to school. she receives a higher educational institution specialty, then she works for a special one, an official who works in one place, e.e., with a

specialty . coordinated organism. i know from my own example when we created the ministry of veterans affairs that there is a huge problem because finding specialists who will really work for each veteran who applies to this ministry had a big problem, so the question of directly involving veterans in the work of the ministry was key, but any veteran whom we involve in the work of this ministry had to be taught how to work, because there are many books that have encountered bureaucracy among ministries, they are the same lost motivation because some people believe that the work of an official is done once and everything has moved on . to work for the efficiency of this or that ministry, therefore, from my point of view, over the past two

years, these apparatuses in the ministries have been emasculated and appointed their own people. and now they are complaining that the ministries are ineffective. in person , i hope that conclusions will be drawn here. by the way, allow me to share my own observations. i am now looking at volodymyr zelenskyi, who before the war found a lot of time for the gym and did not even forget about these showing off on all his social networks, we can all see that he is clearly not into gyms, and in fact it is respectful that you understand that a person really does not have time for all this and, well, not that not that not that not that he probably had a lot before too much time, but now he has joined conditionally speaking , and everyone probably understands this today, and it is very good for them to also understand that for this they also need to return the same professional competitions well, it just won't be any other way and actually then, here is the last question i will ask

today, all ukrainians should unite of course that all united against the enemy and but but this is this superovo it's fantastic it's fascinating on the other hand sooner or later this war will end it will end with the victory of ukraine and at this moment we will all have to continue to be united but no longer against someone but for the sake of something and actually this question will arise again, i.e. what is independence for ukrainians, what do we want to build? what do you think will happen with this idea? there will be a lot of work for us. we have to rebuild our state, build infrastructure, rebuild the production of enterprises and schools. kindergartens that will be destroyed, cities that were still there will be a lot of work, and the most important thing for everyone, from my

point of view, at this stage is not to fail, not to destroy the unity, because everything cannot always be of the same color, there is a variety of colors , it is also is useful for everyone, but you need to learn from each other, criticism is not always a judgment, criticism is sometimes hidden, these are seeds that can be used in this way, and this will help fuel our state, so i am sure that the key and main thing after victory will be the revival of our rules and and look, the authorities will work on this. i believe in this, because for this, boys and girls give their most

precious lives. to direct communication. thank you for this conversation. mrs. iryna remembered part of this phrase, which i also do not get tired of repeating when i spoke about the armed forces of ukraine and about the soldiers of the armed forces of ukraine, men and women, they each give something today for they sometimes give victories. all in this is the greatest feat. well, with those dates, we move on. and now we will give the floor to president volodymyr zelenskyi, who addressed all ukrainians to the citizens, and in fact, in what concerns, in particular, not to be ignored in these days of air alarm signals, we predict what will happen. what will be especially furious about our enemy,

he still has a few rusty missiles left, but the fact that they are rusty and less accurate is not the opposite, does it increase the probability of defeat, as we understand incidentally, the impression of the civilian population well, then a word to president volodymyr zelenskyi and our defenders and our defenders. i wish you health. today was a busy day that began and ended with the awarding of our heroes, our defenders, our defenders on the occasion of infantry day, a professional holiday of soldiers of ukraine, who are the foundation of a - and the army met with our military in the morning, thanked for their service , presented an award, including our new battle, there was an award, you know that in our country during the days of dependence, there was not exactly a combat award of his today i had the honor to finally present just such a distinction, the cross of combat merits, and the first person i

decided to present ah this cross was general valeriy zaluzhnik, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine , for bravery, for wisdom, for the organization of an effective visa or to the russian invasion, i am sure that the russian army will not forget such a repulse for a long time, the cross of combat merit was also awarded to the deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine , lieutenant general yevhen moshuk, a combat medic of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade, from sergeant. mazurenko, commander of the 14th separate mechanized brigade, colonel oleksandr okhrimenko, deputy commander of the mechanized battalion of the 72nd separate organized brigade, captain vladyslav kalievskyi, the combat awards themselves are a fair new tradition for the state that defends the independence of our state on the battlefield, a special award for courage was also established and bravery for

the combat units, which showed extraordinary courage and effectiveness, many for ukraine received seven brigades and orders also a gold star to our defenders who received the title of hero of ukraine, as well as to the relatives of those of our heroes who were awarded this title posthumously . more than 40 civilians , women and children, we hope that soon they will be able to try to get to a safe territory after two months under shelling just under the ground , we are also working on this diplomatically options for the rescue of our military, which are still growing, involved influential

mediators, influential states, russian troops continued shelling of our territory, in particular , missile and air strikes, i am asking all our citizens, especially these days, to hide air grass signals in them, please, this is your life, your children, and also strictly observe regulations on public order and curfew, which are mandatory in cities and communities. please follow them. driving in forests is prohibited . the areas where they were occupied, which were occupied , there remains a great threat of withdrawal and extensions, only what remained after the russian military held a meeting in kyiv with the minister of foreign affairs of the three baltic states, they consistently support our fight against the russian invasion, they have supported us since the first day , we are very grateful today, as we always talked thoroughly and coordinated with the benefit of ukraine